On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Ben Collins wrote: ->On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 07:29:19PM +0530, Nagarjuna G. wrote: ->> On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Ben Collins wrote: ->> ->> ->On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 06:43:56PM +0530, Nagarjuna G. wrote: ->> ->> ->> ->> I have checked at a few of the ftp sites, where the file rescue.bin (of ->> ->> 1.44MB) image of POTATO distro has an error, and so cannot be downloaded. ->> ->> The file has the `Read error at byte 4035/1474560'. I have checked the ->> ->> ftp.debian.org, ftp.uk.debian.org sites. I donot know whom to report, if any ->> ->> of you know please forward this mail to the concerned person. ->> -> ->> ->That really sounds more like floppy driver, and floppy disk problem to me. ->> ->Have you tried using a different disk? ->> ->> No, I haven't made a floppy as yet. The error is at the ftp site. The ->> download stops after reading upto 4035 bytes. -> ->Have you tried http? It sounds very strange that this error occurs. Even ->if the file was corrupted, the ftp server wouldn't care.
Usually I use wget, but this time in order to double check I have used netscape also. Same error. However, I seemed to be getting ../disks-i386/2.2.15-2000-06-07/images-1.44/safe/rescue.bin. Possibly this file is not corrupted. In anycase the above error remains strange. Nagarjuna
